First Nights and First Editions - Signed Limited Edition

Smith, Harry Bache. First Nights and First Editions. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1931 “Autographed Edition,” a limited edition of 260 copies of which this is number 88. Hardcover, lacks jacket, 15.5 by 22.6 cm, x 325 pp. Near fine with minor rubbing at the head and tail of the spine. Bookplate for J.H. Samuels on the front pastedown and bookseller label on the rear pastedown for Boston bookseller Helen Davies McGlade. Signed by Smith on the limitation page. The aforementioned lyricist who, as stated by Christopher Morley, “earned his living writing librettos and spent it buying libraries.” Webber, p. 121. First Edition.